CMS Plans Response To Industry Concerns Over MedCAC Process
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS will more fully describe how it intends to use its Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee to set research priorities, CMS Chief Medical Officer Barry M. Straube said April 30 at a MedCAC meeting in Baltimore
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